• Special Assistant in the U.S. Department of the Interior (Carter administration)
• History teacher and varsity basketball coach, ‘Iolani School

Mufi Hannemann has the distinction of having served in four Presidential administrations—Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush—in a number of appointed capacities. He was a special assistant in the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular and International Affairs under President Jimmy Carter. He was a White House Fellow with Vice President George H.W. Bush during the Reagan administration. He was President Bill Clinton’s U.S. representative to the South Pacific Commission under the U.S. Department of State. And he was appointed by former U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to the Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship during the tenure of President George W. Bush.